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'The tension doesn’t slack an inch… It is haunting, sensuous and immaculately constructed — without sacrificing any thrills' Sunday Times, *Best Beach Reads of 2025*February 1944. Six months since Nazi forces occupied Rome.Inside the beleaguered city, the Contessa...
**THE NUMBER ONE IRISH BESTSELLER**When the Nazis take Rome, thousands go into hiding. One priest will risk everything to save them.September 1943: German forces occupy Rome. SS officer Paul Hauptmann rules with terror.An Irish priest, Hugh O'Flaherty, dedicates himself...
Discover the enthralling Richard & Judy Book Club pick from international bestseller Joseph O'Connor.'The best novel that I've read in the last twenty years... It's fantastic' RICHARD MADELEY'Breathtaking... A hugely entertaining book about the grand scope of friendship...
At college in 1980s Luton, Robbie Goulding, an Irish-born teenager, meets the elusive Fran Mulvey, an orphaned Vietnamese refugee. Together they form a band. Joined by cellist Sarah-Thérèse Sherlock and her twin brother Seán on drums, The Ships in the Night set out to...
Ranging from urgently contemporary London and Dublin to New York's Lower East Side in the nineteenth century, from dark comedy to poignancy, from the wryly provocative to the quietly beautiful, these stories - Joseph O'Connor's first collection in more than twenty years...
"I've had thousands of problems in my life, most of which never actually happened." Mark Twain. As never before, our lives are bombarded with daily events that stir fear - real or imagined - in both our individual and collective psyches. From financial worries to social...
The Irish Male at Home and Abroad is the hilarious sequel to Joe O'Connor's bestsellerThe Secret World of the Irish Male. From flirting lessons in downtown Manhattan to being offered a good ride in Disneyland by the now legendary Wanda, it was a long, strange and...
From the bestselling author of Star of the Sea and Shadowplay, 'a powerful, moving adventure of raw fate and betrayed love' (Independent on Sunday).Inspector Martin Aitken's life is a mess. He's divorced, his career's in chaos, and the last thing he needs this Christmas...
The first novel by Joseph O'Connor, bestselling author of Star of the Sea and Shadowplay.Eddie Virago, proud owner of the last mohican haircut in Dublin, leaves his home town to find the fame and fortune he's convinced awaits in the wild world of the London rock...
From the bestselling author of Star of the Sea and Shadowplay, a thrilling novel about a father who takes the law into his own hands.'Gripping and moving...a taut, expertly crafted plot' GuardianDublin, June 1995: the hottest summer since records began. But Billy...
True Believers introduces us to a world of characters stunning in their variety. Here are sad-hearted priests, old friends, young lovers, rockers and rebels. Here are runaway husbands and runaway wives. Here are jokers and fanatics, punks and poets, thinkers and...
In the bitter winter of 1847, from an Ireland torn by injustice and natural disaster, the Star of the Sea sets sail for New York.On board are hundreds of fleeing refugees. Among them are a maidservant with a devastating secret, bankrupt Lord Merridith and his family, an...
Joseph O'Connor's love affair with all things American led to an extraordinary tour of the United States to visit the nine different towns called Dublin, as well as some of the great cities and tiny hamlets in between. Along the way he wittily deconstructs the legends...
'A virtuoso display of literary talent...brimming with sympathy and skill' Irish TimesDublin, 1907. A young actress begins an affair with a damaged older man, the leading playwright at the theatre where she works.Outspoken and flirtatious, Molly Allgood is a Catholic...
'Broad and ambitious...beautifully written...at the heart of O'Connor's masterful epic lies a universal hope for something better' Observer1865. The American Civil War is ending, but for Eliza Duane Mooney her journey across a devastated America has only just...
Yeats is Dead begins with Roddy Doyle and ends with Frank McCourt. In between, thirteen other Irish writers spin an increasingly elaborate tale of murder, mayhem and literary shenanigans in present-day Dublin.
Inspiré de l’histoire vraie de Hugh O’Flaherty, le prêtre irlandais rattaché au Vatican qui a défié les nazis et sauvé plus de 6000 juifs et soldats alliés de l’enfer de Rome en 1943, « Dans la maison de Mon Père » est un thriller littéraire de premier ordre. A la...
Joseph O'Connor rejoint le catalogue des Editions Rivages après de longues années passées chez Phébus, où il était l'un des auteurs emblématiques. Grand romancier irlandais, il revient à la veine historique qui a fait son succès avec ce roman malicieux sur la vie de...
En 1865, la guerre de Sécession touche à sa fin, et Eliza Duane Mooney laisse derrière elle Baton Rouge, en Louisiane, pour se lancer à la recherche de son frère. Lorsqu’elle entame cette marche à travers le pays, Eliza ignore qu’elle met en branle les rouages d’un...
Exilés, voyageurs et étrangers composent les Bons Chrétiens dont les scènes de vie quotidienne révèlent des êtres égarés, déchirés. Leurs voix, pleines d’humour, de questionnements, et de contradictions esquissent le portrait de l’Irlande des années 1980, alors que le...
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